How to work out hourly rate: Hourly Rate Benchmark
The median published figure in the Hourly Rate Benchmark is 12.71 GBP across 4 sources' own pages (range 11.78 to 19.67 GBP), read 17 October 2026.
Weekrota sells its own paid plan in this category (our pricing). It is not counted here: every figure in this index is another provider's own published price, read from its own page.
4 of the 16 named sources read in full publish a figure; 12 publish none, read 17 October 2026.
The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 12.71 GBP across 4).
Every figure, with its source
One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| ONS: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, latest bulletin | 19.67GBP | 2026-10-12 |
| GOV.UK: LPC recommendations take the National Living Wage to £12.71 | 12.71GBP | 2026-10-17 |
| GOV.UK: minimum wage rates for 2026 | 12.71GBP | 2026-10-12 |
| Low Pay Commission consultation 2026 | 12.71GBP | 2026-10-12 |
| GOV.UK: LPC recommendations take the National Living Wage to £12.71 | 10.85GBP | 2026-10-17 |
The sentence each figure was read from (5)
- ONS: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, latest bulletin, read 2026-10-12:
Median hourly earnings (excluding overtime) for full-time employees were £19.67 an hour in April 2025, compared with £18.66 in April 2024 (an increase of 5.4%).
- GOV.UK: LPC recommendations take the National Living Wage to £12.71, read 2026-10-17:
LPC recommendations take the National Living Wage to £12.71
- GOV.UK: minimum wage rates for 2026, read 2026-10-12:
National Living Wage (21 and over) £12.71 50p 4.1
- Low Pay Commission consultation 2026, read 2026-10-12:
National Living Wage On 1 April 2026, the NLW increased to £12.71 for all workers aged 21 and over.
- GOV.UK: LPC recommendations take the National Living Wage to £12.71, read 2026-10-17:
The minimum wage for 18-20 year olds will increase to £10.85 and the rate for 16-17 year olds will increase to £8.00.
Read in full, publishes no figure
12 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- GOV.UK: National Minimum Wage overview, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK: what counts as working hours for the minimum wage, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK: minimum wage for different types of work, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK: minimum wage, paid per hour, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK: Calculating the minimum wage (guidance), read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK: National Minimum Wage Low Pay Commission reports, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- ONS: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings landing page, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- ONS ASHE Table 2: earnings and hours worked, occupation by two-digit SOC, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- ONS ASHE Table 3: region by occupation, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- ONS ASHE Table 29: earnings and hours worked by industry and occupation, read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Nomis: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- the authority per figure, read 2026-10-10: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
4 of the 16 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 12 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 2 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 13 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the statutory floor per age band for the rate year in force, set beside the ASHE median and lower-decile hourly pay for the occupation, industry and region, so the calculator answers both 'is this legal' and 'is this the going rate'; the salary-to-hourly conversion is computed from the contract's own hours over the pay reference period; changed-since on each April rate turn and each ASHE release
13 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (18)
- GOV.UK: National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: minimum wage rates for 2026(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: LPC recommendations take the National Living Wage to £12.71(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: National Minimum Wage overview(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: what counts as working hours for the minimum wage(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: minimum wage for different types of work(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: minimum wage, paid per hour(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: Calculating the minimum wage (guidance)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: National Minimum Wage Low Pay Commission reports(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, latest bulletin(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings landing page(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS ASHE Table 2: earnings and hours worked, occupation by two-digit SOC(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS ASHE Table 3: region by occupation(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS ASHE Table 29: earnings and hours worked by industry and occupation(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Nomis: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS: average weekly earnings in Great Britain, latest(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Low Pay Commission consultation 2026(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- the authority per figure(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The median published figure in the Hourly Rate Benchmark is 12.71 GBP across 4 sources' own pages (range 11.78 to 19.67 GBP), read 17 October 2026.
4 of the 16 named sources read in full publish a figure; 12 publish none, read 17 October 2026.
The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 12.71 GBP across 4).
Cite as: "Weekrota Hourly Rate Benchmark", updated 2026-10-19, https://weekrota.com/datasets/hourly-rate-benchmark/.
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